Union garment.



J. A. SGRIVEN.

UNION GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22, 1908.

INl/ENTUR BY Wm AITORNEYS Patented July 7, 1914.

WIT/1158858:

JEREMIAH A. SCRIVEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

UNION GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

lz'itented July '7 1914.

Application filed May 22, 1908. Serial No. 434,238.

a citizen of the United States, resident of the borough of liilanhattan,city, county, and T I i otate of new lot-k, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Union Garments, of which the following 1s aspecification.

My invention relates to union garn'ients,

that is to garments which may be described as combinations of undershirtwith drawers, and has for its object to provide a well-fitting andeon'ifortable garn'ient of this character. This result I secure by anovel arrangement of elastic sections or insertions, as will bedescribed in detail hereinafter, and particularly. pointed out in theappended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1is a front view of a union garment embodying my improvements; Figs. 2and 3 are partial front views showing slightly different forms of myinvention; Figs. 4:, 5, 6 and 7 are detail views, looking from theoutside-of the garment, and showing various ways of connecting thewaistband with vertical insertions.

The garment comprises an upper portion or body portion A which may bemade sleeveless or with sleeves, such as indicated at A in Fig. 1. Atthe bottom of this body portion is a waistband or waist portion B ofrelatively elastic material, such as knitted fabric with the walesrunning horizontally. In the constructions illustrated by Figs. 1, 3, 4,6 and 7, this waist portion is made of one piece, and is continuous butfor the front opening at which the fabric is preferably doubled to formreinforced edges B. The section of the garment below the waist portion.13 forms the drawers and comprises portions C which (like the bodyportion A) I prefer to make relatively inelastic, for instance, of wovenfabric. Edge strips D, D of inelastic or other material, run from theneck opening of the garment along its front openingto the crotch andthen upward in the rear to the waist portion B. In the particularconstruction shown, each'of these strips is interrupted at the waistbandand also at the crotch, where inside leg insertions C terminate. Thefront portions of the strips D, D are provided with fastening devices,such as buttons D and buttonholcs II) respectively. It will be seen thatthe garment may be opened entirely in front from the neck to the crotchand in the back from the crotch to the waist portion.

The leg sections consist of the portions C and elastic insertions Uhereiuhetore mentioned, together with elastic anklets, E, and additionalelastic insertions C which I prefer to arrange on the outside of the legsections, from the anklets to the waist portion. These insertions arecombined as it were, on the body portion A of the garment, although inthe construction illustrated by Figs. 1 and l I employ separate strips Aon the body portion in line with and in the continuation of the leginsertions C from the waist portion B upward. These insertions or stripslead to the region of the arm pit, and terminate at the arm-opening orscye when the garment is sleeveless; when sleeves are provided, theelastic strips may be continued along them, as shown at the left in Fig.1.

In Figs. 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 continuous insertions C extend from thearmhole downward beyond the waist portion 13 (preferably to the anklesE, in the same manner as shown in the lower portion of Fig. 1.) In otherwords, a continuous insertion is substituted for the two alining strips0 A of Figs. 1 and 4. In Figs. 2 and 5 the waist portion B isinterrupted at its junction with the insertions C; in Figs. 3, 6 and'7,both the waistband B and the insertions C are continuous where theyintersect, and the waistband is placed either inside at the crossingpoint, as in Figs. 3 and 6, or outside as in Fig. 7. The wales of theinsertions C A, C are preferably longitudinal, that is mainly vertical.

lVhere the strips B and C cross, they may be of their full width, asshown and connected only at two edges (say the vertical edges, as inFigs. 3 and 6) leaving the other (say, horizontal) edges free, so thatthis small portion of one of the intersecting strips (say, thewaistband) is free to increase the elasticity of the garment at thispoint.

The garment is well fitting owing to the combination of elastic andinelastic portions. The extension of elastic insertions to the arm-pitportions of the garment is a special characteristic of considerableutility, particularly with such insertions leading to 4 inelastic legsections, a horizontally disposed elastic waist band connecting saidbody portion and said leg sections, said garment having continuouslongitudinal edges forming a continuous opening which at the frontextends from the neck to the crotch and at the rear from the crotch' tosaid elastic waist band, elastic insertions extending along the insideof the leg sections to said opening, and elastic insertions extendingalong the outside of said leg sections from the anklets to said elasticwaist band and from said waist band to the arm pit region of the bodyportion whereby the entire garment between said waist band and saidanklets and between the; waist band and the arm pit region may yield ina direction transverse to the garments length and edge strips extendingalongsaid longitudinal edges from the neck at the front to the elasticwaistband at the rear and interrupted by said elastic waist band and bythe elastic insertions whichextend along theinside of the leg sections.I

r In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

JEREMIAH A. SCRIVEN. Witnesses:

J 01am Lorna,- JOHN A. KEHLENBECK,

